St. David's HealthCare Sites In WilCo Honored For Stroke Care

Big fucking whoopee.

 

 But you tell us NOTHING ABOUT RESULTS. They remind us they 'care' about us multiple times but never tell us how many 100% recovered.  You have to ask yourself why they are hiding their incompetency by not disclosing recovery results. ARE THEY THAT FUCKING BAD?

Three measurements will tell me if the stroke hospital is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospital by firing the board of directors, you can't let incompetency continue for years at a time.

There is no quality here if you don't measure the right things.

1. tPA full recovery? Better than 12%?
2. 30 day deaths? Better than competitors?

3. rehab full recovery? Better than 10%?

 

You'll want to know results so call that hospital president(Whoever that is) RESULTS are; tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery. Because there is no point in going to that hospital if they are not willing to publish results.

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

 

St. David's HealthCare Sites In WilCo Honored For Stroke Care

Four Austin-area medical facilities were lauded by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association​ for 'exceptional' care.

By Tony Cantu, Patch Staff

Nov 18, 2020 12:23 am CT

Four Austin-area medical facilities were lauded by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association​ for 'exceptional' care. (Shutterstock)

ROUND ROCK, TX — Four St. David's HealthCare facilities in the Austin area — including two in Williamson County — have been recognized for providing exceptional stroke care, officials announced on Tuesday.

The four medical facilities honored by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association — St. David's Medical Center, St. David's Round Rock Medical Center, St. David's South Austin Medical Center and St. David's Georgetown Hospital — were bestowed the Get With The Guidelines®- Stroke Gold Plus Award for providing exceptional stroke care in 2019, hospital system officials said.

The award recognizes a hospital's commitment to, and success in, ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines that aim to speed recovery and reduce death and disability for stroke patients, officials explained in an advisory.

To receive the Gold Plus Award, hospitals must meet specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients, according to the advisory. These measures include, but are not limited to, evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date guidelines, officials noted. Before discharge, facilities must also ensure that patients schedule follow-up visits and receive health management education, added hospital officials.

In addition to receiving the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Award, St. David's Medical Center, St. David's Round Rock Medical Center and St. David's South Austin Medical Center earned the American Heart Association's Target: StrokeSM Elite award, officials said.

To qualify for Target: Stroke recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient's arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-busting tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the nation. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds, and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

To learn more about Get With The Guidelines-Stroke and its recognition criteria, please visit the American Heart Association's website.

About St. David's HealthCare

St. David's HealthCare includes seven of the area's leading hospitals and is one of the largest health systems in Texas. The organization has been recognized with a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award—the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence. St. David's HealthCare is the fourth-largest private employer in the Austin area, with more than 10,600 colleagues across 132 sites of care.

St. David's HealthCare is a unique partnership between hospital management company HCA Healthcare and two local non-profits—St. David's Foundation and Georgetown Health Foundation. The proceeds from the operations of the hospitals fund the foundations, which, in turn, invest those dollars back into the community. Since the inception of St. David's HealthCare in 1996, more than $611 million has been given back to the community to improve the health and healthcare of Central Texans.

About Get With The Guidelines

Get With The Guidelines are the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's hospital-based quality improvement programs that provide hospitals with tools and resources to increase adherence to the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines programs have touched the lives of more than 9 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit Heart.org/Quality.